Prisoners

"Karlin is one of the most gifted, passionate, and powerful writers of his generation." —George Garrett, in choosing Prisoners as one of the most notable books of 1998 in the Dictionary of Literary Biography

"As the novel weaves characters and their voices in and out and moves toward a shattering climax in which age-old sin and horror come to bear on contemporary life, the reader realizes that the story of a young girl's search for a lost father is really the story of the world America has created. It is a dark-laced nightmare vision that still, ironically, has room for salvation." —Multicultural Review

"Poetic, powerful fiction." —Mary Ann Carroll, Booklist